Deals: Hot Docs, Off The Fence, Blue Ant Media

Hot Docs partners with A24 on the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, Love Pets heads to The Roku Channel in Canada, and more.

Gravitas Ventures lands global rights to Handle With Care doc

The feature documentary follows the ups and downs of the Vancouver-based streetball collective The Notic.

In Brief: The Invisibles to world premiere at Cinequest festival

Plus: Tamara Segura’s feature doc Seguridad will world bow in Miami, and LIFT announces the participants for its Expanding North program.

Ghostly thriller Hangashore gets underway in Newfoundland

The film is written and directed by A Fire in the Cold Season filmmaker Justin Oakey.

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge to address BANFF delegates

The Minister will speak on the festival’s opening day on June 9.

Rainmaker picks up Plastic People ahead of SXSW debut

The documentary on microplastics is making its world premiere at the Texas festival on March 9.

I Am Sirat’s journey from smartphone to CBC Docs POV

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta and producer David Hamilton discuss how making the documentary entirely from a smartphone was critical to telling Sirat Taneja’s story.

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Telefilm partners with Parrot Analytics for audience insights

The funder will tap into the firm’s audience demand data to help inform its decision-making on concept funding, marketing and distribution.

ACTRA names Jennifer Podemski 2024 Woman of the Year

The ACTRA National Woman of the Year honour has been awarded to members since 2010.

Gravitas Ventures acquires U.S. rights for Re: Uniting

Laura Adkin’s drama feature will make its Canadian theatrical run later this month, followed by a U.S. release in June.

Little Bird, Sort Of lead 2024 Canadian Screen Awards noms

BlackBerry also earned a record-breaking 17 film nominations for the 12th annual Canadian TV, film and digital media awards.

CSAs ’24: Crave, APTN lumi’s Little Bird leads TV nominations

Little Bird earned 19 nominations overall, followed by CBC comedies Sort Of and Workin’ Moms at 18 and 12, respectively.

CSAs ’24: BlackBerry leads film nominees

BlackBerry garnered a record-breaking 17 nominations, and is followed by Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Infinity Pool.

On Screen Manitoba, MFM name film accelerator cohort

The OSM/MFM Script Angel Feature Film Accelerator connects local writers with international mentors to develop a feature script.